<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:mark.reinhold@oracle.com" class="">mark.reinhold@oracle.com</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Java 14 / JDK 14: General Availability</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">17 March 2020 at 17:37:28 GMT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:announce@openjdk.java.net" class="">announce@openjdk.java.net</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:jdk-dev@openjdk.java.net" class="">jdk-dev@openjdk.java.net</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">JDK 14, the reference implementation of Java 14, is now Generally<br class="">Available. We’ve identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 36<br class="">over five weeks ago so that’s the official GA release, ready for<br class="">production use.<br class=""><br class="">GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://jdk.java.net/14" class="">https://jdk.java.net/14</a><br class=""><br class="">Builds from other implementors will no doubt be available soon.<br class=""><br class="">This release includes sixteen features [1]:<br class=""><br class=""> 305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)<br class=""> 343: Packaging Tool (Incubator)<br class=""> 345: NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1<br class=""> 349: JFR Event Streaming<br class=""> 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers<br class=""> 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions<br class=""> 359: Records (Preview)<br class=""> 361: Switch Expressions (Standard)<br class=""> 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports<br class=""> 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector<br class=""> 364: ZGC on macOS<br class=""> 365: ZGC on Windows<br class=""> 366: Deprecate the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld GC Combination<br class=""> 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API<br class=""> 368: Text Blocks (Second Preview)<br class=""> 370: Foreign-Memory Access API (Incubator)<br class=""><br class="">along with, as usual, hundreds of smaller enhancements and thousands<br class="">of bug fixes.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 14, whether by creating<br class="">features or enhancements, fixing bugs, or downloading and testing<br class="">the early-access builds.<br class=""><br class="">- Mark<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/14" class="">https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/14</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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